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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Metro is a mess. The roads are more congested than ever (and they just announced plans for 100s more speed cameras in case going down major arteries like 16th wasn't painful enough). And crime is worse than ever. Maybe Bowser should focus on ways to make it easier for people to get downtown, rather than forcing them to do it against their will. [/quote]

Exactly! make it more attractive for people to want to come in. She has been bashing commuters, taking parking spaces away, creating more and more bike lanes, cameras, etc for years. Where the hell does she think feds can afford to live? It's not an easy bike ride to work.[/quote]
The glib war on commuters they have been waging looks pretty counter productive and a lot like self-inflicted harm now that they are begging the Federal government to force them back.[/quote]

There's no "war on commuters", just like there's no "war on cars".[/quote]

Are you really going to claim that commuting into DC hasn't gotten exponentially harder over the past 20-30 years as a direct result of policies enacted by the mayor/s?[/quote]

Oh, you mean DRIVING into DC.[/quote]
Is your opinion that Metro service has IMPROVED over the past 20 years? A transit system that has been losing riders every year since 2008? A transit system that has spawned this website: https://ismetroonfire.com/

LOL.

They have certainly made it a lot easier to bicycle (less than 4% of commuters), but it has gotten a lot harder for everyone else - and more expensive.[/quote]

Seriously. I'm pro-biking, and did it when I it made sense for me to live closer in (then I had my second kid and needed more space than I could afford in biking distance). But the entire regional infrastructure is hostile to bike commuters who don't live IN DC already, and to Metro commuters, because of the hub and spokes design of the metro AND bus routes. If you don't live directly on the same one your job is on, you're looking at a really brutal commute. I'm 100% in favor of decreasing car dependence, but you need to...replace it. We don't have functional alternatives for people who are pushed further out by COL.[/quote]

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